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From: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun NCAA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: c beautifier
Keywords: c beautifier for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <377@greens.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 16:29:17 GMT
References: <563@blake.acs.washington.edu> <366@greens.UUCP> <2275@3comvax.3Com.Com>
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In article <2275@3comvax.3Com.Com>, marcl@vax.3Com.Com (Marc Lavine) writes:
> In article <366@greens.UUCP> matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun NCAA) writes:
> >X	Swiped from CPIG'S UNIX system and modified to
> >X	run under BDS C by William C. Colley, III
> 
> Note the above comment in the code!  This is based on Unix source code
> (it looks VERY similar to the version that comes with 4.3bsd) and thus
> is not public domain.  To the author of the posting, I recommend
> cancelling this article unless you can prove me wrong.
> -- 
> Marc Lavine				Internet: marcl%vax.3Com.Com@Sun.Com
> Smart mailer: marcl@vax.3Com.Com	UUCP: ...{oliveb|sun}!3comvax!marcl

    I received two or there comments like this since I reposted source code
for cb.c recently, and thats right 'REPOSTED'. The cb.c source code I reposted 
recently was taken from a posting to this group (comp.sys.ibm.pc) last 
September by one: Alan Strassberg         UUCP: ..!{pyramid,leadsv}!oetl!alan.

    I work for Sun Microsystems, and I have access to the source code for the
version of 'cb' for SunOS 4.0. Although the output looks near Identical, I 
couldn't find even a passing similarity between the cb.c files.

    No one has yet told me what the acronymn 'CPIG' stands for. Probably 
Mr William C. Colley, III can tell us, but I don't even know who this 
gentleman is.

    With the first modification date listed as (10-30-83), this version of
'cb' has been on the loose for quite some time. Lets see if we can compile 
a correct history of it origins before scorch the net from another wave of
flames.

[Here is a sinippit for the beginning of the 'cb' source in question]
/*
        Compiled on Manx C86 by Allen Morris 3/22/86

        Modified for DeSmet C by S. Lekach 3/20/86

        Modified for Lattice C Ver 1.01
        by: John W. Kindschi Jr. (10-30-83)

        Swiped from CPIG'S UNIX system and modified to
        run under BDS C by William C. Colley, III


        To use the program type the following command line:

                A>cb input.fil [output.fil]

        Where input.fil is the file to be pretty printed and [output.fil]
        is the destination file. If no output file is specified, then
        the output goes to the console:
*/

    If anybody can bring us upto date on the history of this version of 'cb.c'
please write to me at the below address. Thanks in Advance: 
 
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